On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
I don't see how we can possibly have a tested release ready every time some distro decides to ship.
That wasn't the proposal. The proposal was to ship every 6 months, and to pick a release date that made some sense relative to any emerging rhythm in distro releases.
FWIW, Fedora also seems to be on a six month release schedule; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule says 8 released in November, and 9 will release in May.
On the contrary, since distros don't give a damn about Wine and usually do their best to break it (page zero issue anyone?)
That wasn't the distro; that was an upstream kernel vulnerability fix announced in February, http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Patching_CVE-2008-0600_Local_Root_Exploit
we are better off releasing after a major distro release so that we have a chance to find and fix the latest breakages first.
If we want to catch breakages like the recent one early, we shouldn't wait for the distros; we should run Wine with each new release of the Linux kernel.
It's still very much a feature-based model, only of course the desirable features have been shifting as Microsoft shipped new stuff and people wanted to run new apps before we supported the old ones properly...
You assert Wine's releases will be feature-based, but I don't understand your reasoning yet. - Dan